"Greetings, Clan Head Wu."
"Haha, Young Master Shen has arrived. No need for such courtesy. Please, take a seat."
"Wu has been occupied with many affairs these past few days and failed to properly receive Young Master Shen. Please forgive me."
When Shen Changchuan entered the main hall under the guidance of a Wu Clan servant,
Wu Yuanzhi, the Wu Clan Head, received him with great enthusiasm.
Yet this enthusiasm
made Shen Changchuan somewhat unaccustomed, and his heart quietly rose in vigilance.
As the local tyrant of this region,
before coming here, Shen Changchuan had naturally chatted with local figures such as the Li Clan Head and Guo Cheng, learning the particulars of the Wu Clan that controlled Wu Family Market.
Although compared with the Tiannan Shen Clan,
the Wu Clan was still far inferior.
Within several hundred miles, however, it was an unquestionably powerful clan.
It was said that three hundred years ago, during the great war between the Jade Clarity Sect and the Elephant Mountain Sect, the Wu Clan had fled the chaos of war and moved here from the flourishing northern regions of the Cultivation World.
They reclaimed Spirit Fields here, managed their Lineage, and spread their branches and leaves.
Over three hundred years, they had reclaimed more than a hundred mu of Spirit Fields and cultivated a medicinal field.
Rumor had it that at the core of the clan's grand array lay a Spirit Peach grove.
One main peach tree blossomed once every thirty years, bore fruit once every thirty years, and ripened once every thirty years. The hundred-year Spirit Peaches it produced were of considerable help to cultivators attempting to break through the bottleneck of the Out of Body Realm.
With such abundant resources under its control, along with Wu Family Market, a source of